City and Country School · Admissions
Admissions Process and Events
An education that is intentional, authentic, and inspiring begins with a thoughtful admissions process. At C&C, our team will personally guide you through life on West 13th Street and help you decide if City and Country is the right match for your family.
Steps and Events That Are Required
There are four required elements in our admissions process (five if you’re applying for financial aid):
1. Attend a Campus Tour
Join us to learn how our historically significant program equips children with a modern mindset of agency and innovation. You will experience our campus and classrooms in action, and connect with students and current parents. All tours are in person from 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. Space is limited, so please register early. Upcoming dates are posted below; click to register. Additional dates are announced as they become available. If the date you select is full, please email admissions@cityandcountry.org to be placed on a waiting list.
All tours are in person from 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. While these sessions are designed primarily for applicant parents, children ages 10 and older are welcome to join. We gently ask that very young children do not attend, thank you!
All tours run from 9:00–11:00 a.m. If a tour is full, email the admissions team to join the waiting list.
2. Submit Your Application
Use our online system, Ravenna, to complete your application and track your progress. Although applications are due by Monday, December 7, 2026, we encourage you to submit yours early. This enables us all to begin the important connection that is part of the process, and allows you increased flexibility in terms of scheduling events and appointments.
Apply in Ravenna →Financial Aid · If You Are Applying
If you are applying for Kindergarten or above, you may also apply for financial aid through Clarity. Decisions are based solely on demonstrated need. The deadline to submit your application is Monday, December 7, 2026. Note: If you’re applying for financial aid, our application fee is automatically waived.
Apply for Financial Aid →3. Schedule an Interview
Meet with a member of our admissions team in person or on Zoom for a friendly conversation and to learn more about life at C&C. Once you submit your application and attend a tour, you may schedule this appointment through Ravenna, please.
Schedule in Ravenna →4. Schedule Your Child’s Visit
Give your child a chance to experience City and Country firsthand.
2s - First Grade: Children applying for Groups 2s - first grade will visit on a Saturday. If you are applying for the 2s or 3s, visits will take place on Saturday, January 9, 2027. For applicants to the 4s, Kindergarten, and first grade, your child’s visit will be scheduled for Saturday, December 12, 2026. Once you submit your application, please visit Ravenna to select your child’s timeslot.
Second Grade and Older: Children applying for these groups spend a day on campus, actively experiencing C&C along with current students and teachers. This school-day visit offers them a taste of what attending C&C would be like, and we get to know them a bit as well. After you submit your application and attend a tour, a member of the admissions team will reach out to you to schedule this appointment. Visits take place between November 2026 and January 2027.
For All Ages: So that you and your child will know what to expect, details about child visits will be provided as the date approaches.
Schedule Your Child’s Visit in Ravenna →Steps and Events That Are Optional (But Strongly Encouraged)
These supplemental events are a unique way to engage with our community and program. Although they are not required as part of your application, we strongly encourage you to attend one, two, or all three.
October 28 · 6:00–8:00 p.m.
Open House
Our evening Open House is a unique series of hands-on workshops, led by C&C educators, intentionally designed to offer all of our applicant parents first-hand experience with our program. Upon arrival, you’ll receive a customized menu of activities, geared to your child’s age group, then our eighth graders and current parents will be your guides. Activities include such things as Painting with Primary Colors, Building Literacy in Kindergarten, Shadow Movement in Rhythms for All Ages, Electrical Engineering for Seven-Year-Olds, Timeline of the Civil Rights Era, and more. The evening concludes with a community reception. We hope you’ll join us to experience for yourself what makes the layers of our progressive program engaging and unmistakably effective. Children applying for 6th grade or older are welcome to join.
Please note our Open House is not a traditional tour. For full tours of campus, join one of our many daytime tours.
DECEMBER 1 · 9:00–10:30 A.m.
A Day in the Life of Preschoolers at C&C: Groups 2s, 3s, and 4s
Please join us to learn everything you need to know about life in the preschool years at C&C. This optional, one-time event is designed as a supplement to the required tours that cover the C&C program as a whole. These details, and more, will be discussed:
What are the special benefits of the C&C program?
What is the daily schedule?
How does the separation process work?
How do we meet the social/emotional needs of very young children?
How do we support the children’s physical development?
How is music incorporated into the program?
What is the teacher/child ratio?
What are the programming options?
We’ll visit the classroom spaces so you can see children at work, as well as learn about the unique and intentional design of the classroom environments. Current C&C parents will join the conversation.
DECEMBER 3 · 9:00-10:30 A.m.
A Day in the Life of Kindergarten at C&C
Please join us to learn everything you need to know about life in Kindergarten at C&C. This optional, one-time event is designed as a supplement to the required tours that cover the C&C program as a whole. These details, and more, will be discussed:
What are the special benefits of the C&C program?
How are the academic areas of reading, writing, and math taught?
What about music, art, and physical development?
How do we meet the social/emotional needs of children?
What is the teacher/child ratio?
What’s the daily schedule?
What after-school activities are available?
We’ll visit the Kindergarten spaces so you can see children at work, as well as learn about the unique and intentional design of the classroom environments. Current C&C parents will join the conversation.
Register for A Day in the Life of Kindergarten →Various dates
Block Workshops
Experience our founder’s invention–blocks–through building with them yourself. No other program is like it. Come see firsthand how we use simple wooden blocks to inspire agency, innovation, and collaboration. Designed for applicant parents for the 2s - second grade, these evening workshops are led by Admissions Director Elise Bauer who teaches the block-building course to graduate students at Bank Street College of Education.
Be sure to note: These workshops are for applicant parents (and not children), and because of space limitations we ask that one adult per household attends. Thank you!
Date to be announced
Meet the Grads
One of our most insightful events, Meet the Grads invites families–current and prospective–to hear directly from a panel of C&C alums who are now in high school. Join us in person as our former students reflect on their time at City and Country and how it shaped their academic and personal growth. The discussion is moderated by our Principal, Dr. Frank Patti, and a reception follows, offering an opportunity to connect with families and community members.
Registration will be available when the event date is confirmed.
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Connect with our admissions team as you get to know City and Country.
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